Oniisama graduated from high school and entered university, while I entered Year 6.162Please respect copyright.PENANA2jly0v8jkz
Once I considered that I wouldn’t see Oniisama in uniform anymore, I felt a little lonely, so I took a few photos of him.162Please respect copyright.PENANAnmyKfy9Vpm
The Zui’ran high school uniform really is so cool!162Please respect copyright.PENANAmphheUNtal
I asked him to wear it occasionally at home, but he refused…162Please respect copyright.PENANAje0T301rdK
Isn’t it fine if it’s just in the house~?162Please respect copyright.PENANAnxlRoFX4Me
Yurie-sama and Aira-sama also graduated from middle school and entered the high school section, and Emperor Kaburagi got depressed that he was stuck in primary and the gap was even wider now.162Please respect copyright.PENANAWny9EcSH2k
I mean, a love between a primary schooler and high schooler is just impossible, right~?162Please respect copyright.PENANApnJ0C0Tykq
I think he should just give up already, but this first love of his is supposed to continue until high school, so I guess there’s no reason he’ll give up now.162Please respect copyright.PENANAzWynYLhmcp
According to Aira-sama Intelligence, Kaburagi isn’t stalking Yurie-sama, but because they don’t get to meet often, he’s expressing his feelings by letter. It worked last time, so it looks like he’s encouraged because of it.162Please respect copyright.PENANANRXDiiV3uo
Since I also became a 6th Grader, next year I’ll be riding the escalator system into middle school. Having said that though, I’m preparing for our internal examinations, so I ended up getting a home tutor.162Please respect copyright.PENANAjNfccJmU2l
My home teacher is Ousaka Karin-sensei and she goes to a national university.162Please respect copyright.PENANAeiOIGoQ8J7
She comes over twice a week.162Please respect copyright.PENANAg4HXgRMGpq
In my cram school exams, I rose in the rankings from upper-middle to lower-upper. I thought I made a good effort amongst all these kids from prep schools, but I really do wonder how I’m supposed to feel when I can’t even get first place amongst primary schoolers.162Please respect copyright.PENANAPoejxjo8uB
Once I enter middle school, maths and arithmetic are going to turn into a monster. I need to try hard while I still can.
Karin-sensei’s explanations are easy to understand and I make progress studying with her. Even if I don’t get it the first time when I see it at cram school, it really helps that I can have her follow up.162Please respect copyright.PENANAYhjlcFJAvq
For a while now, sometimes Oniisama teaches me as well, but the feeling of tension is different. I just keep spoiling myself with him since he’s family.
“You learn quickly, don’t you, Reika-san. Really, well done for getting this far.”162Please respect copyright.PENANA4nus8kahxe
Karin-sensei often says stuff like that to praise me.162Please respect copyright.PENANAoTzmsKHZsh
Apparently she’s the type who praises people to get them to try harder.162Please respect copyright.PENANA3eSAqORoFH
And I’m the type that gets fired up when I’m praised or flattered, so we have pretty good compatibility, I think.162Please respect copyright.PENANAaLu8TtTEM0
Ever since that day in winter, I’ve been sitting with Akizawa-kun and Fukioka-san in my Maths and Japanese cram classes.162Please respect copyright.PENANAlbP8OFHm8x
Fukioka-san sits right in the middle, with Akizawa-kun and I to her sides. Fukioka-san wouldn’t let Akizawa-kun sit in the middle, you see.162Please respect copyright.PENANATK75g3KP84
I also exchanged mail addresses with Fukioka-san, and we’ve gotten quite a bit closer.
Contrary to her appearance as a Japanese-style beauty, Fukioka-san has quite the venomous tongue.
On Valentines Day that year, I gave my hand-made chocolates to Aoi-chan and Fukioka-san.162Please respect copyright.PENANAIPoBIYtPME
At Zui’ran we expect that Valentines chocolates are better quality than even high-class stores, so it’s my first time giving hand-made chocolates to anybody but my family.162Please respect copyright.PENANAFaxGpOiCDG
Last year Aira-sama taught me how to make them, and Otousama even said “This is the best one you’ve made so far.”, but this year Aira-sama was also busy with exam prep, so I tried using the recipe that she taught me last year to make it.162Please respect copyright.PENANAPDKRu7uNcu
Oniisama also said “Making one like last year would taste good.”162Please respect copyright.PENANAeTGR4So6e7
So I handed them over to them filled with confidence.
Aoi-chan told me “It was yummy.” but Fukioka-san said “It’s not very good.”…162Please respect copyright.PENANAVFXX8zsZX5
“It’s not bad, but the taste is kind of lacking. Did you use cheap chocolate to make this?” she said. So rude! I used chocolate from Belgium!162Please respect copyright.PENANAAyeuMn8Rbw
When I told her that in complaint, she ended up replying “Apologise to Belgium”…162Please respect copyright.PENANAHOekemnxCD
Fukioka-san, the gap between your appearance and inside is too huge…
Incidentally, I didn’t give one to Akizawa-kun. Whether it’s a friendship chocolate or a courtesy chocolate, Fukioka-san would probably get mad regardless.162Please respect copyright.PENANAUC355zsV37
In my mind, Fukioka-san is under the ‘cannot make into an enemy’ category.162Please respect copyright.PENANAwnExztbGCy
Apparently she’s learning to cook to prepare for her future as Akizawa-kun’s wife.162Please respect copyright.PENANAMWQY9ngk3A
How amazing. She’s got a much better idea of her future than I do. She’s actually planned so much that it’s even a little scary.162Please respect copyright.PENANA9wM56L0RQk
And you know, Akizawa-kun, it’s impossible for you to escape now. I’m scared of Fukioka-san too, so I’m afraid I can’t help you. Forgive your cowardly friend!
And so, Fukioka-san asked me, “What if you learnt as well?” but I’ll probably be busy with the internal exams this year, so I turned her invitation down.162Please respect copyright.PENANADobrrR79AC
When I got home, I told Oniisama “My friend told me the taste was lacking.” and he replied “The person’s feelings are more important than the taste in situations like this.” and I wasn’t sure how to feel about that.162Please respect copyright.PENANAYxXAx29tNB
When I get into middle school, maybe I really should start learning…162Please respect copyright.PENANAxAybfOuQsF
Right now, Aoi-chan is my Soothing Friend.162Please respect copyright.PENANAtRfmhbJMay
She’s docile and seems withdrawn, but once you’re closer with her, she starts laughing a lot.162Please respect copyright.PENANAVnrARvTzHn
She would definitely never say something like “the taste is lacking”. What a good girl.162Please respect copyright.PENANAsdlEPpTPZg
And what’s more, shockingly! Aoi-chan told me that she went to visit her grandpa on New Years! She got me a Tarow the Taro plush keychain! I’m so happy!162Please respect copyright.PENANAEKaAO610XN
When I got home, I immediately put house keys on it. There’s always a maid around and somebody chauffeurs me places and back, so to begin with I’ve never used a key before. But I do carry one around just in case.162Please respect copyright.PENANAXnkFmu6x2s
And my keys were now hanging from Tarow. His pathetic face is really cute.
Aoi-chan has amazing sense for souvenirs. She totally knew what I wanted.162Please respect copyright.PENANAnbdBVhvqye
And shocking! For the holidays in spring, she got me region-exclusive potato chips!162Please respect copyright.PENANA2jHnNCcpi7
Aoi-chan said stuff like “Although I’m not sure if you would even eat this sort of stuff…” in embarrassment, but I’ll eat it, you know! Or rather, it’s my favourite! I’ve wanted to eat potato chips for six years now, you know!162Please respect copyright.PENANArMVmokOfcw
The potato chips were in a souvenir bag, and I carefully snuck it into my room so that Okaasama wouldn’t see. It was late at night when I sneakily ate it.162Please respect copyright.PENANA1oKKa0uixj
So nostalgic. My body trembled from the cheap taste.162Please respect copyright.PENANAGKnAULGTeo
It would be a shame to eat it all in one go, so I decided to treasure it and eat it little by little, but the next day I cried when I found it soggy.
Incidentally, I call Aoi-chan ‘Aoi-chan’ in my mind, but in front of the girl herself it’s “Yorino-san”.162Please respect copyright.PENANADrzz8oB9N4
I don’t have the courage to use her first name. I mean, I’d hate it if she went “Eh-? What’s with that all of a sudden?”.162Please respect copyright.PENANA9R2IoOgTRp
It’s hard to find a chance to start things like this, isn’t it?162Please respect copyright.PENANAWiFNvfolSo
My homeroom teacher wanted me to be class rep. It sounded troublesome so I said that I sucked at management and refused, but they pressed me and said that vice rep was fine, and in the end I became vice rep… or rather I got stuck with it.162Please respect copyright.PENANALPjZsUdBna
That was probably the plan from the beginning. After all, the position of class rep went to this boy who had done it a bunch of times already.162Please respect copyright.PENANAA4fzNowGMT
Teacher swindled me using that ‘ask big first, then go for small’ trick.162Please respect copyright.PENANA6K5KWOuitr
I got totally fooled. In the end, I was stuck as the odd job girl again.162Please respect copyright.PENANAGCCukeFaOw
Though it’s true that my thimbles still lie sleeping in my pencilcase though.
But this time it’s just within my class, so without my natural enemies here, things went smoothly.162Please respect copyright.PENANAbloUZAUqNS
Collecting forms was easy too, since the scary army of girls behind me made everybody cooperative.162Please respect copyright.PENANAUgDQTfhMTS
Class Rep even said, “As expected of Kisshouin-san”. I don’t think he was praising me though.162Please respect copyright.PENANAa3qBKI3Ywj
It was like I was the bodyguard of some debt collector.162Please respect copyright.PENANAuyWZ0n3Rwz
This is weird. This isn’t how things were supposed to be. I get the feeling that recently I’ve been losing my elegance.